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by Bobbi Snow » 11-06-2012 02:20 AM
It was kind of a turn-off to me when after his last "Predictions" broadcast he made the comment that the people who were calling in with predictions were less than up to his taste... I can't recall exactly what his comment was, now, but it seemed he thinks all the predictions were lame-brain.
I never called in for that show. Not that I don't have feelings about things to come, but I'm not experienced enough to go on the record...
About 5 years ago I had a distinct premonition that LA was going to suffer a rather strong 'quake soon, so I took down my bookcase. It was free-standing on a half wall, and had there actually been a good shaker, I could see hundreds of books and long pieces of shelving falling down our stairs and clogging up the stairwell; maybe even injuring one of us or one of the cats. We haven't had one yet, so I guess I took it down and had a professional one with a heavy plastic back on the stairwell side, installed for nothing! It cost us $2700 to have it built and attached to the half-wall above the first flight of stairs. Alas, when I went to the garage to retrieve a lot of my collectable books, I found someone had jimmied the locked storage closet and taken a lot of my cherished (some author-signed) books in the boxes.
Believe it or not, the one I'm the most pissed about losing is the JOHN TITOR book. Copies of it now are a rare find, and cost quite a bit of money when one becomes available.
Also, all my Numerology text books were taken, too, and my Shirley MacClaine autographed collection. At least they didn't find the VHS UFO lectures interesting enough to pilfer, or any of the UFO DVDs from various conventions over the past 12 years. I guess they had no interest in woo-woo lectures!:D Since Command Sgt. Major Robert O. Dean (my mentor) is gravely ill and may not live much longer, I'm so thankful all my videos of his talks are still here.
I haven't had a lot of energy for the past few months, so it's been a slow process, sorting thru what's left, and getting them properly placed in the new bookshelves. And I'm still not finished!
There were lots of other things in that storage closet that could have been worth quite a bit of money had they also been taken, but obviously whoever took these treasured items did it during a time when we were both gone for a couple of days - perhaps when we went to Rod's grandson's H.S. graduation, a couple of years ago.
Anyway, I think Art has wistful thoughts of reinventing a show, but I doubt he will ever do it. He seems to be pretty settled into his life, and raising a child at his age is probably not as easy as it was when his son was born, 25-30 years ago. I often wonder whatever happened to the extensive collection of shows ShirleyPal had... Maybe her family has enough interest in it to have kept it for posterity. But when Art gave up that large alien in his broadcast room in the house in Nevada, I figured his life had changed radically with a little one in the house, and that perhaps the paranormal inquisitiveness had become just a memory from another lifetime.
If you're still breathing, it's not too late!